Customer Reviews

East Orange in Vintage Postcards (NJ) (Postcard History Series)

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I can't remember when I've enjoyed a book so much! The postcards and narratives shown throughout the pages brought me back to the town I so loved and enjoyed as a child and teenager growing up in a city that I felt was the best place in the world.

My mother lived in E. Orange during the 1906 to 1938 time period. She attended the Lincoln Elementary & E. O. High School along with my father whom she married later on. The postcards in this book give me a view that my mother would have seen as she grew up. This book gave me a warm and cozy feeling about a town I didnt know before. Many years later as I grew up in Caldwell, not far away, I had no idea of the rich history of E. O. Now I know thanks to this book. Note to Author: Don't ya just love Antique shops?

This well researched and visually appealing book is worth leisurely perusal. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.

This is an excellent book of postcards of East Orange, New Jersey, many from the era 1900 through 1930. For those who grew up in or around East Orange years ago, this book is invaluable as a reminder of how great a place it was. There is also some text which gives coherence to the pictures. The only possible competition of which I am aware is a Centennial Book of East Orange from 1963 which has many photos (but not as many as the Postcard book) and a longer textual history of the City in its different aspects.